Amazon.com description: Product Description: This treatise is for use by students after examination of the basic sources - the appellate opinions, statutes and critical commentary in the modern casebooks. Emphasis is given to homicide and theft, two areas most teachers of criminal law have concluded are particularly suited to evaluation of the criminal process for social control, comparison and evaluation of the contributions of courts and legislatures in defining and grading crimes, understanding the significance of history in the development of the law of crimes, and acquiring expertise in the use of the case method and techniques of legal analysis. The major emphasis in this treatise is upon the general part of the criminal law, the basic premises of the criminal law, responsibility, justification and excuse, and inchoate crimes and accomplice liability. Greater attention has been given to certain subjects - such as causation, insanity, and conspiracy - which experience has shown are particularly troublesome for beginning law students.